Easy to manage and has an easy initial setup phase
What is our primary use case?
I use the solution in my company for VPN connectivity and security purposes.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its ability to block websites.
What needs improvement?
The product's user interface has certain shortcomings where improvements are required.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Sophos XG for a year and a half.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
There are no stability issues in the product.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support was good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I don't have experience with any other product apart from Sophos XG.
How was the initial setup?
The product's initial setup phase was straightforward.
The solution can be deployed in two months.
What was our ROI?
The product doesn't help save time or money in our company.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Sophos XG can be considered as an averagely-priced tool in the market.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
My company chose Sophos XG over other products in the market, considering that the solution provides its users with good support and a strong firewall.
What other advice do I have?
Sophos XG has improved our company's network security.
The product's threat intelligence capabilities are very nice.
I am satisfied with the user interface of the product.
It is easy to manage the product.
The product has not been integrated with other tools.
I rate the tool a ten out of ten.
Sophos firewall experience
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is easy to use for understanding and creating rules.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some times we receive buggy updates from the Sophos firewall, and it takes time to resolve it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
in terms on firewall it give great security and very user friendly UI
Good defender
What do you like best about the product?
Unified Threat Management
Easier to manage
What do you dislike about the product?
As I have worked on sophos firewall there no dislikes from my side
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is having a quality like more in one protection
I have been in IT INDUSTRY FOR 29 YEARS NOW
What do you like best about the product?
Sophos Firewall is easy to use and configure
What do you dislike about the product?
i dont get a lot of help from the writups on the internet
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
safegurding my company's ICT infrastructure
SOPHOS XGS5500
What do you like best about the product?
Excellent Support, Easy to deploy and easy to configure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not Applicable. We don't have any issues with the firewall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are an educational sector. We have around 15K students on our campus. Sophos helped us to create firewall rules , VLAN.
Good
What do you like best about the product?
Good defender and policy
Deep packet inspection
What do you dislike about the product?
DPI
IPs
Web protection and App control in single click.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Threat detection and response
Sophos Firewall is truly exceptional
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the ease of administration, the UI is user friendly and the central management is exceptional to carry day to day admin tasks. Sophos Firewall comes with very comprehensive features from connectivity to security.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is really nothing that I dislike about Sophos Firewall. But if I may request for the feature I would be looking at Virtual instances. I however know it is in their roadmap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure Connectivity by leveraging SD-WAN & VPN Orchestration feature.
Security by using Dual-AV, ATP & zero-day protection optimize the overall security posture of our cybersecurity strategry at the network gateway.
Sophos Firewall with Xstream Protection capabilties
What do you like best about the product?
We havee been using this product from quite a while now, and based our user experiance this is the most simplest of products to use. Smooth deployment/implementation experiance and robust feature set as per our network needs. Technical Support is much responsive as compared to various vendors and is quite effective. ZTNA integration launched recently is also an amazing feature to have.
What do you dislike about the product?
We coluld have 3rd party integration for threat feeds which is missing as of now in the product.
Alos the reports need to be more customizable and elanorate to provide a holistic visibility across the traffic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using is as in Internal Segmentation firewall and we needed robust routing capabilties to start with .
SDWAN funtionsality in Sophos Firewall helped to avhive the same with undelying effective SLA capabilties is helping us the much needed zero inmpact transitions.
User level authentication with built in MFA capabiltiy using 3rd part MFA agents likegoogle authenticator,microsoft autheticator - is helping us secure the user layer.
Sophos Firewall the most powerful in the security era.
What do you like best about the product?
I am working on different firewalls including Sophos Firewalls (Sophos) is the easiest and cheapest compared to other leading firewalls. A leader in Gartner's, it delivers its intention as an NGFW with a built-in SDWAN feature/dual antivirus/synchronized security/ Sophos central as very easy to manage centrally.
I love the GUI and detection and visibility of reach security capabilities that Sophos Firewall has. The wide range of product portfolio integration makes Sophos Firewall the most powerful in the security era.
Thanks,
Jitendra Kumar
What do you dislike about the product?
I was troubleshooting the HA issue and resolved it gracefully but found a reboot frustrating.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos Firewall provides a wide range of gateways and internal security features as compared to other very cheapest prices.
Sophos firewall protract as shield configuration and console are attractive and easy
What do you like best about the product?
1. Liked very much monitor function it includes all adminstrator requirements such as Routing, DHCP, Loadbalance, IPsec, SSL VPN, SDWAN and Firewall users, Intrusion prevention and so on.
2. Configuration and report generation is easy and GUI sophos dashboard looks nice and handy customization.
3. Allows both Remote access vpn and site to site vpn this types provide more security to use public IPs anywhare in the world.
4.A massive and effective protection against wide area of cyber threats
What do you dislike about the product?
As of now i have no issue to with sophos
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In COVID time all employees do work from home we need to secure our data and network, sophos firewall provides and ensure the remort site as well as to ensure vpn connection for employess.
Sophos firewall is shield ananist extrnal attacks, mange and report the Vulnerability assesment actions.